This actually solved it, upon typing \\ServerName I was asked for a Username and Password. I left that prompt for the user to type in his credentials but he said that when he came back he closed out of it instead not knowing I had left it there for him :S

So, now that he tries to hit the network resource we get that same error message again.

I've been doing some research online and keep reading about the credentials being cached someplace in the Vista machine. If this is so, is there a way to clear these old credentials?

At home, myself, I've got a NAS and have just entered the Vista world. The NAS has accounts setup with the same username and password as the usernames and passwords in Vista. Those users can access anything on the NAS without a problem.

Since you've got less flexibility with usernames, passwords, etc... I would probably try to browse the network to the point of seenig the server, then I would right click and map network drive, and look for the option to use a different username and password. There input domain credentials.

As GUI-centric as Vista is, I'm suprised you're navigating to the server using Run > \\servername. You'll probably never do that with any success as any modern domain won't have anonymous access enabled, which is what's required to browse the IPC$ share.

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At home, myself, I've got a NAS and have just entered the Vista world. The NAS has accounts setup with the same username and password as the usernames and passwords in Vista. Those users can access anything on the NAS without a problem.

Since you've got less flexibility with usernames, passwords, etc... I would probably try to browse the network to the point of seenig the server, then I would right click and map network drive, and look for the option to use a different username and password. There input domain credentials.

As GUI-centric as Vista is, I'm suprised you're navigating to the server using Run > \\servername. You'll probably never do that with any success as any modern domain won't have anonymous access enabled, which is what's required to browse the IPC$ share.

Dont bother with trying to get to a domain share with start>run if the computer is not part of the domain. David is right, just goto map network drive, type in the full share path, \\server\sharename then put in some domain credentials.and choose a drive letter. this should work.

also, why not just tell the user/accounting/whoever to get vista business? Im sure youre getting paid more than $40 to fix this problem, which is the price difference between home and business, or used to be, it might be less now.

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